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Anyone on here got anymore?
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>>9661653
>A screaming comes across the sky.
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>>9661653
"Humanity....All of my suffering has been at the hands of humanity, particularly women."
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>>9661687
chills. every time
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is this really one of the best novels of all time?
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as long as your not to much of a dumas to comprehend it
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>>9661546
it predictable as fucking fuckity fuck fuck fuckeringovsky
it's really bloated and illogical at times and reads like it's heavy handedly written by a rich guy for the illiterate masses.
also
>shudder
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>>9661547
It's pronounced doo-MAH.
dumbass.
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Hello lit.
I have always been terribly interested in Aesthetics, how it relates to beauty and political/social movements. Has anyone else read anything semi-related to this.
Pic very related.
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>>9661473
shameless bump ;(
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>>9661473
Roger Scrotum is a fuddydud who mixes up beauty with morality. That being said, it was an interesting read. He sure does get pissed off about those pissoirs of Paris. And I agree with him about modern architecture as well as pop music being played everywhere, but what sane person wouldn't?
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>>9661730
Except he doesn't, both beauty and morality are value judgements so there are similarities in the way they function. Scruton, as with every virtue ethicist, uses the two to springboard ideas off each other and better understand them.
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Tell me about the Orthodox Church of America.
There's a tiny parish not far from my house, and I'm curious enough to show up one Sunday.
t. Protestant-turned-apatheist
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>>9661467
You probably meant this for /his/ or /x/ but I'll answer anyways. Orthodox is a very strict religion with fasting and rigorous praying. If you're a former protestant then you'll have to change a lot of routines.
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>>9661478
But real Russians get high and jack off to anime all the time.
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>>9661467
>t. middle-class suburbanite seeking "exotic" experiences to make up for lack of personality
https://youtu.be/tOVsbxfxFYA
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i bet you got like 30 followers on insta
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>>9661367
I don't have an insta. What makes you say that?
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>>9661380
why does no one ever understand what i'm talking about
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How are hedonism and nihilism not the same thing?
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they're spelled way different
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>>9661303
Sonemic will NEVER lunch
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>>9661303
hedonism, as pleasure seeking, could be a religious activity if you've got a really fun religion like Satanism.
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What are your /lit/ related ambitions?
Whether as a reader or a writer, what do you hope to have achieved by the time you're old?
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Sex with barely legal girls whenever I want
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get published more, get a book published....obtain money. Up until a year or so ago I wanted sex along with the money, but my testosterone is really taking a nosedive I think.
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>>9661282
I hope to be finished with Infinite Jest before I die. Holy shit it's a tedious and challenging read. I just can't get into it. It kinda pisses me off because I feel like I've fallen victim to a great prank.
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I really want to read Don Quixote, what is the best translation/edition to start with?
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bump. same issue
that harold bloom intro on the right one makes me wet though
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I heard Grossman is the best but Bloom's into is shit.
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woah.
itt:
post great poetry
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well a boot scooting baby
is driving me crazy
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Post a novel no one here has read. Include a quote from it. Maybe you'll get others interested.
>"He pulled her back. Something--his slightly abnormal shortness, I suppose--made me suddenly think that, like many people who abuse their power over others, he carried into adulthood some ancient sense of himself as a victim. I felt certain that he saw himself as the weaker party here; entitled--even obliged--to use any weapon he could: that he wasn't so much trying to possess the girl as conducting an ongoing act of defiance against the hand nature had dealt him as a physical specimen; a hand that appeared to have ruled beauty of the order this girl possessed forever out of reach."
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My diary desu
>I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain - the only thing that's real. The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting. Try to kill it all away... but I remember everything.
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>>9661216
Trent Reznor plz go
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Hey everyone, have a presentation to do and I'm looking for some good Wuthering Heights memes. Please help.
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>>9661156
Just look up Kate Beaton's Wuthering Heights comics.
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>>9661156
The bottom book isn't the above Dale Carnegie Book, and I know because, I"m reading it right now.
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>>9661156
Those are two different books. The bottom one is a hardcover.
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>The living substance, further, is that being which is truly subject, or, what is the same thing, is truly realised and actual (wirklich) solely in the process of positing itself, or in mediating with its own self its transitions from one state or position to the opposite. As subject it is pure and simple negativity, and just on that account a process of splitting up what is simple and undifferentiated, a process of duplicating and setting factors in opposition, which [process] in turn is the negation of this indifferent diversity and of the opposition of factors it entails. True reality is merely this process of reinstating self-identity, of reflecting into its own self in and from its other, and is not an original and primal unity as such, not an immediate unity as such. It is the process of its own becoming, the circle which presupposes its end as its purpose, and has its end for its beginning; it becomes concrete and actual only by being carried out, and by the end it involves.
What did he mean by this?
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>>9661060
Yeah what DID he mean by this?
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>>9661165
OP here, I figured it out after reading it over and over, or at least I think I have.
He means the truth can only be examined and known by something alien to it (i.e us), and that the path to truth is the constant contradiction, negation, and restatement of truth which is again negated endlessly, its end being its beginning, and its beginning its end.
Please tell me I got this right.
I'm just going to use this thread to post the theses I really struggle with and hopefully get advice, which may also hopefully be of use to others.
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>>9661060
Objects given to cognition are first represented as self-contained and closed in on themselves by the Understanding. The subject as "pure and simple negativity" is the first step in dissolving this empirical view of things as unmediated; the subject negates the isolated character of the object given to it, and discovers its relational character to what is outside of it. But what really shocks the subject is when it learns that the exterior to which the object is related is only the subject itself. In so doing it "remembers" that it, as spirit, had posited the object in the first place; indeed representing it to the Understanding is only possible insofar as this is the negation of abstract Being, i.e., a subjective act. With the object realized as only the reflection of the subject to itself, we arrive at self-consciousness, and "the circle which presupposes its end as its purpose," i.e., the circle of cognition which can only begin to think by in the first place positing its own objects to itself, discovers that "it had its own end for its beginning," namely, self-reflection in the object it meant to understand. Thus self-consciousness "becomes concrete and actual only by being carried out": we always have this reflective power, but only realize it in reflection.
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Solomon Kane Edition
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first for sabriel
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Second for reminder that in 14 days, two weeks, The Unholy Consult will be released. Please be sure to buy my latest book when it comes out!
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>>9661054
Huh that was fast.
Tfw you just want everyone to hurry up and die so they can party in hell
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Is this a good read? I only know that it's an Oprah Book Club book, so I can't assume so, but figured I'd ask anyway.
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Franzen is suburban dad core.
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>>9660844
>Is this a good read?
i don't know
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>>9660854
It only somewhat piqued my interest given the relationship between him and DFW.
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Are the Witcher books worth reading?
I would be interested in knowing how much of it is adventures with Geralt vs political intrigue with kings and sorceresses.
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>>9660815
>Are the Witcher books worth reading?
i don't know
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>>9660815
The author apparently dislikes the video game, so fuck him.
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>>9660838
He's mad because he didn't take the royalty deal over the lump sum with signing over the license. He would have been rich as fuck had he done so.
Regardless, disliking an author is no good reason not to read their books.